Friday, September 01, 2006

Factor is now three years old

That's right, and if you read the blog post from a year ago, you'll see Factor has made a lot of progress.

Just for kicks I downloaded Factor 0.77. It took 34 minutes to bootstrap on my x86 machine. Current Factor releases bootstrap in 2 minutes 30 seconds on that machine. Not only has the performance of the compiler improved drastically, but the amount of optimizations it does -- and not to mention the volume of code being compiled -- has increased too.

A quick overview of just some of the major improvements in the last year:

Good to see the contributed section growing fastest of all. I hope the core library doesn't get too large, and that a year from now I can look back and say that Factor has again made a lot of progress.